Windows 10: Safely Remove Hardware icon with nothing plugged in, shows 3 dots(...)

Discus and support Safely Remove Hardware icon with nothing plugged in, shows 3 dots(...) in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I installed Windows 10 on my desktop and the safely remove hardware icon is always there even when nothing is plugged in. When nothing's plugged in,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by yogalD, Aug 7, 2015.

  1. yogalD Win User

    Safely Remove Hardware icon with nothing plugged in, shows 3 dots(...)


    I installed Windows 10 on my desktop and the safely remove hardware icon is always there even when nothing is plugged in. When nothing's plugged in, clicking the icon just shows 3 dots (...) and a link to open the Hardware and Devices window (or whatever it's called).

    How can I fix this?

    I will also note that this does not happen on the laptop that I installed Windows 10 on.

    :)
     
    yogalD, Aug 7, 2015
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  2. Daz54 Win User

    Notification Area Icons

    The "Safely Remove Hardware....." icon only used to show if I had a usb device connected, and disappeared once the device was removed.

    It is now showing all the time. Without a device plugged, when you click it, it shows "Open Devices and Printers" at the top with three dots (...) at the bottom where the device to be removed is normally shown.

    On my other Windows 10 PC it behaves just as referred in the first line above.

    Has anybody got any ideas on how to fix this?

    Regards,
     
    Daz54, Aug 7, 2015
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  3. Daz54 Win User
    Notification Area Icons

    Thank you Ratandeep for your continued support.

    The above posting applies to a removable device always showing the Safely Remove Hardware icon, which is what I would expect to happen.

    This is not the same as my problem which is that even without a device plugged in my PC is showing this icon.

    Regards,

    Daz
     
    Daz54, Aug 7, 2015
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  4. yogalD Win User

    Safely Remove Hardware icon with nothing plugged in, shows 3 dots(...)

    Also why was this moved to hardware/devices? It's not a hardware issue.
     
    yogalD, Aug 8, 2015
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  5. CountMike New Member
    It includes everything USB, mice, keyboard, any controller inside the case, like card readers, some CPU coolers etc.
     
    CountMike, Aug 8, 2015
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  6. yogalD Win User
    Then why doesn't this happen in other situations? And how would I get rid of it anyway?
     
    yogalD, Aug 8, 2015
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  7. CountMike New Member
    Laptop probably doesn't have anything inside connected by USB. I don't think you can remove it but only hide it.
     
    CountMike, Aug 8, 2015
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  8. yogalD Win User

    Safely Remove Hardware icon with nothing plugged in, shows 3 dots(...)

    Hmm for some reason the generic Microsoft drivers cause this - for hard drives and apparently an internal card reader I had. Installing Intel's SATA driver stopped my internal HDDs from showing up, but that still left the 3 dots. Turns out that the Microosft driver for the card reader was responsible for those 3 dots, for whatever reason, and installing the proper drivers (for Windows 7 though) solved this.
     
    yogalD, Aug 8, 2015
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  9. Hi,

    I have been having the same kind of 'safely remove hardware icon not going away' issue you used to have before. I have been struggling to fix the issue for a while but couldn't find the cause of the problem.
    Tried in device manager with the drivers of my card reader for example.

    Is there a way you could help me out with this?

    I would appreciate any help or advice.

    Thank you!
     
    DavidsNeD88, Oct 4, 2016
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  10. yogalD Win User
    If you unplug your card reader does it still happen?
     
    yogalD, Oct 4, 2016
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  11. I can not unplug anything since I have a Lenovo laptop with this built-in 4-in-1 kinda card reader.
    I installed fresh Windows 10 Pro x64 from a USB stick a few days ago and the Safely Remove Hardware icon has been there with the 3 dots and the 'Open Devices and Printers' option ever since.
    I have no external USB devices plugged in at the moment except my mouse. But unplugging my mouse did not solve it (obviously*Smile).
    I installed/updated the JMicron card reader driver manually but the icon is still there.
     
    DavidsNeD88, Oct 4, 2016
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  12. yogalD Win User
    What about disabling the card reader in device manager? (finding out whether or not it's the card reader causing this)
     
    yogalD, Oct 4, 2016
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  13. Edwin New Member

    Safely Remove Hardware icon with nothing plugged in, shows 3 dots(...)

    Is it possible to hide it with 'Classic' Options?

    'Personalize (classic)' context menu - Add in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums


    Safely Remove Hardware icon with nothing plugged in, shows 3 dots(...) [​IMG]
     
    Edwin, Oct 4, 2016
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  14. yogalD Win User
    I'm sure that's possible but it's not a solution.
     
    yogalD, Oct 4, 2016
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  15. I tried with disabling it before but it did not solve it. At the moment however there is an option only for Uninstalling it and in its Properties-General tab says its not connected to the computer.

    Edit: At the normal Win10 settings 'Select which icons appear on the taskbar' it is greyed out and already turned off.
     
    DavidsNeD88, Oct 4, 2016
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